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The road ahead
Life, Published on 19/06/2019
» On Friday (June 21), Adul Sam-on, one of the boys saved from Chiang Rai's Tham Luang Cave, will turn 15. Last year, two days after his birthday, he joined his coach and fellow soccer players in their exploration of the fifth-longest cave in Thailand. Little did Adul or anyone else know that the previous year could have been his last. So his birthday celebration this year is a testament to the miraculous rescue after an 18-day ordeal in the 10km-long cave.
The plight of the stateless
Life, Published on 14/08/2018
» Thanom's ancestors lived in what was Siamese territory, near Bang Saphan district in Prachuap Khiri Khan, over a century ago. Back then Burma, to the west, was a British colony and people who lived along the border crossed back and forth without much difficulty. When state boundaries were redrawn during the reign of King Rama V, his family was stuck on the other side. As a young man Thanom was a cattle herder, and he travelled around Karen villages to buy cattle and buffaloes and crossed over to sell them on the Thai side. When he started this job, a cow was just 20 baht and a buffalo was 50 baht.
Get your spicy clogs on, dears
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 05/08/2018
» Last week I wrote the story of one of the 12 boys and their coach from the Wild Boars football team who said he just wanted to eat some pad kaprao, the Thai basil stir-fried dish, after their Tham Luang cave ordeal between June 23 and July 10 in Chiang Rai's Mae Sai district.
'Pad kaprao' still on top
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 29/07/2018
» At times, one cannot help but appreciate the most minute details of a huge news story, such as the boys from the Wild Boars football team saying after their cave ordeal that they just wanted to eat some pad kaprao.
May's botched boob job, Poo comes clean, Poj's revenge
News, Mae Moo, Published on 22/07/2018
» 'Don't trust the doctors'
Mynx's prenatal blues, Poo gets crabby, Poj caves in
News, Mae Moo, Published on 15/07/2018
» Awaiting the baby bump
Fang bites back, Chompoo's second chance, Ice alive and kicking
News, Mae Moo, Published on 25/12/2016
» A Chiang Mai woman says she is mulling laying a police complaint after a mechanic from a motor repair shop took her Mini Cooper for a joyride up a mountain and tried charging her for the privilege.